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College of Public Health honored for community service

College receives the Harrison C. Spencer Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

May 6, 2020

Public health student Na-Omi Hassane Dan Karami, in green T-shirt, interprets for a French speaking family at the Fall Refugee Health Fair held Nov. 2, 2019 at Benson High School. Na-Omi worked as a navigator during the health fair as part of the UNMC College of Public Health student-led Bridge to Care program, which is one of the many community service activities that led to the recognition by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

Dr. Haggar volunteers time, skills to sew masks

The masks will be used for visitors and personnel without direct patient contact.

May 6, 2020

LiveGreen: Transportation Week is May 11-15

Transportation choices can impact our health.

May 5, 2020

Nebraska health care workers called to join HERO Registry

PCORnet® study will use registry to answer questions about the impact of novel coronavirus on health care workers’ lives.

May 5, 2020

James McClay, M.D., UNMC site investigator for PCORnet

Arnold retires after more than four decades at UNMC

Assistant professor of pathology and microbiology also was a UNMC alum.

May 5, 2020

From left, Steve Hinrichs, M.D., chair of the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Lora Arnold and Samuel Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., Havlik-Wall Professor of Oncology

Six locations across Nebraska now decontaminating PPE

Method developed at UNMC combats a shortage of one-use N95 respirators.

May 1, 2020

UNMC/Nebraska Medicine developed a safe and effective method to use ultraviolet light to decontaminate N95 respirators.

UNMC’s Rohan Khazanchi joins AMA medical education council

Khazanchi is a third-year student in the UNMC College of Medicine.

Apr 28, 2020

Rohan Khazanchi
Ted Carter, president of the University of Nebraska

NU system planning to resume in-person classes in fall 2020

Leaders are “guided by safety, science and our mission,” president says.

Apr 27, 2020

University of Nebraska President Ted Carter

Questions with Chancellor Gold

Do you recommend family walks around the neighborhood?

Apr 24, 2020

UNMC and University of Nebraska at Omaha Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.